page_title: Polona Hercog
section_title: 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Polona Hercog / Career summary / 2015
caption_attribution_description: Polona Hercog competing in the first round of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.
context_page_description: Polona Hercog is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are No. 35 in singles and No. 56 in doubles. She has won five WTA Tour titles; three in singles and two in doubles. Hercog also enjoyed success on the ITF Women's Circuit, winning 14 singles and five doubles titles. She is the Slovenian No. 1 in women's tennis.
  Partnering with Jessica Moore, she won the 2008 French Open and Wimbledon Championships junior titles in the doubles competition.
context_section_description: Hercog started the year at the Shenzhen Open. She lost in the second round to Zheng Saisai. Coming through qualifying at the Apia International Sydney, Hercog was defeated in the first round by Karolína Plíšková. At the Australian Open, Hercog lost in the second round to qualifier Lucie Hradecká.
  Seeded seventh at the Rio Open, Hercog was defeated in the second round by Brazilian wild card Beatriz Haddad Maia. Playing in Acapulco at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Hercog lost in the first round to third seed and eventual finalist Caroline Garcia. Hercog stayed in Mexico to compete at the Monterrey Open. She was defeated in the second round by eighth seed Magdaléna Rybáriková. Hercog had multiple match points in the third set but failed to convert. Getting past qualifying at the BNP Paribas Open, Hercog beat 2009 champion Vera Zvonareva in the first round. She lost in the second round to twenty-fifth seed Caroline Garcia. At the Miami Open, Hercog was defeated in the first round by Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. In Poland at the Katowice Open, Hercog lost in the second round to second seed and defending champion Alizé Cornet.
caption: Hercog at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
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